Lovely Trash | Ashghal-haye Doost Dashtani (2013)

Synopsis

Following protests to the presidential election in 2009, an elderly woman has one night to clear her house of any politically troublesome belongings of her family.

To help her out; her deceased husband, her executed brother and two martyred and immigrated sons are back to life in their picture frames.



Cast: Hedyeh Tehrani, Shahab Hosseini, Negar Javaherian, Akbar Abdi, Saber Abar, Habib Rezaee, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Behrouz Vossoughi(in the original version)

Produced by: Hossein Akbari, Mohsen Amiryoussefi, Saeid Malekan
Music by: Afshin Azizi     
Cinematography by: Turaj Aslani
Editing by: Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Sohrab Khosravi


This film, which is about the events after the Iranian 2009 elections, failed to receive a release permit from the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and failed to receive a screening permit for the 32nd Fajr Film Festival from the government of Hassan Rouhani.

Finally, after six years of being banned, it was allowed to be released in late February 2018 and was well-received by the public. In January 2019, it was revealed that Behrouz Vossoughi had starred in the original version of the film and that his presence was the reason for the seven-year ban on the film.   

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Country: Iran
Language: Farsi
Color: Color
Runtime: 110 min.